The Sodexo Meatless Monday initiative is a monumental commitment from the massive food service to rigorously promote vegetarian options a minimum of one day a week.

The Sodexo Meatless Monday commitment is important because the UN Food and Agriculture organization estimates that every American eating vegetarian once a week could save over one ton of water and 12 billion gallons of gasoline annually. Seeing as how Sodexo serves over ten million people each day and how 900 hospitals have signed on to participate in just this month alone, the initiative is definitely something worth getting behind.